Leigh Walton
@leighwalton.bsky.social
reader, researcher, music-lover. Spent 18 years at the graphic novel publishing house Top Shelf Productions. Pronoun: he. Profile pic by “wervty” via picrew
Reposted by Leigh Walton
In THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Jack Skellington sees something, decides it belongs to him, and pumps out an altered version of it that almost looks like the real thing (but which sucks and everyone hates) while nearly destroying the thing he claimed to be championing.
Jack is a dead tech bro.
Jack is a dead tech bro.
December 12, 2024 at 8:30 PM
In THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Jack Skellington sees something, decides it belongs to him, and pumps out an altered version of it that almost looks like the real thing (but which sucks and everyone hates) while nearly destroying the thing he claimed to be championing.
Jack is a dead tech bro.
Jack is a dead tech bro.
Reposted by Leigh Walton
Reposted by Leigh Walton
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
Reposted by Leigh Walton
okay well you should have a different long-term vision
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
okay well you should have a different long-term vision
Reposted by Leigh Walton
Reposted by Leigh Walton
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Reposted by Leigh Walton
I also have SUPER SECRET MYSTERY CUPS - which I'm selling for extremely cheap because me and my friends drank pink wine of out them all summer, and now I want them outta my house!
(they brought us a lot of joy!)
(they brought us a lot of joy!)
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I also have SUPER SECRET MYSTERY CUPS - which I'm selling for extremely cheap because me and my friends drank pink wine of out them all summer, and now I want them outta my house!
(they brought us a lot of joy!)
(they brought us a lot of joy!)
Reposted by Leigh Walton
Reminds me of The Rocket Book, where there's a physical hole in the book, linking all the illustrations together in a continuous time / space linkage. www.themarginalian.org/2016/08/08/t...
The Rocket Book: A Conceptually Ingenious, Stunningly Illustrated 1912 Children’s Book About Urban Living
An irreverent wink at the challenge of separate lives sharing space in the city.
www.themarginalian.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reminds me of The Rocket Book, where there's a physical hole in the book, linking all the illustrations together in a continuous time / space linkage. www.themarginalian.org/2016/08/08/t...
Reposted by Leigh Walton
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
Reposted by Leigh Walton
🥀 commission for @lizmun.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
🥀 commission for @lizmun.bsky.social
Reposted by Leigh Walton
I truly feel that the only good book reviewers out there these days are those who have been immersed in fanfic at some point or another because the ones who haven't are like uncontacted peoples being exposed to smallpox, they don't know what it is that's making them sick
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I truly feel that the only good book reviewers out there these days are those who have been immersed in fanfic at some point or another because the ones who haven't are like uncontacted peoples being exposed to smallpox, they don't know what it is that's making them sick
Reposted by Leigh Walton
Movie where a guy does this and accidentally revitalizes the organization producers style
I've occasionally contemplated joining a waning secret society just in order to be in on the ground when the final financial decisions have to be made.
The Socialist Party of Great Britain has 300 members and £2.5m, including an office building in London.
December 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Movie where a guy does this and accidentally revitalizes the organization producers style
Reposted by Leigh Walton
I lived in my car part of the time I was teaching undergrads.
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I lived in my car part of the time I was teaching undergrads.
Reposted by Leigh Walton
Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
It is very funny to me that in this edition of Robert E. Howard’s original Conan stories, the third one (“The God in the Bowl”) is Conan accidentally wandering into a whodunnit murder mystery. Standing around glowering while a detective tries to solve it
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/83469/...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/83469/...
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard: 9780345461513 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Conan is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created– a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, facing powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It is very funny to me that in this edition of Robert E. Howard’s original Conan stories, the third one (“The God in the Bowl”) is Conan accidentally wandering into a whodunnit murder mystery. Standing around glowering while a detective tries to solve it
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/83469/...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/83469/...
Reposted by Leigh Walton
Reposted by Leigh Walton
historically this has always gone really well for all parties involved and been like really good for art, so i'm pretty excited
Netflix’s new bid to buy Warner Bros is a mostly cash offer.
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
historically this has always gone really well for all parties involved and been like really good for art, so i'm pretty excited
Reposted by Leigh Walton
the first thought that comes to your mind when you see nazis saying 'destroy the trans people who give us bad grades on our homework' should not be 'what was the homework'
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the first thought that comes to your mind when you see nazis saying 'destroy the trans people who give us bad grades on our homework' should not be 'what was the homework'
Sometimes you think the various traditions of American comics have nothing to do with each other, as distant as continents, but then you triangulate the midpoint of Mike Mignola and Raina Telgemeier and Tessa Hulls and sail there and find an island with this book on it
Hello Sunshine, by @keezyyoung.bsky.social.
Closeted jock Noah has fallen in love with artistic Alex.
But the troubled boy suddenly disappears and only his boyfriend, his brother Jamie, Jamie's girlfriend Izzy & their childhood friend Sky keep looking for him.
[1/3]
#queer #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Closeted jock Noah has fallen in love with artistic Alex.
But the troubled boy suddenly disappears and only his boyfriend, his brother Jamie, Jamie's girlfriend Izzy & their childhood friend Sky keep looking for him.
[1/3]
#queer #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Hello Sunshine (A Graphic Novel)
In this lush and romantic queer horror graphic novel, a troubled teen disappears from his small town—sending his loved ones on a paranormal journey to brin...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Sometimes you think the various traditions of American comics have nothing to do with each other, as distant as continents, but then you triangulate the midpoint of Mike Mignola and Raina Telgemeier and Tessa Hulls and sail there and find an island with this book on it
Reposted by Leigh Walton
One of my fave discoveries when co-curating that exhibit at the Billy Ireland were some truly unhinged early Fletcher Hanks drawings that turned out to be his homework from the W.L. Evans School of Cartooning and Caricature correspondence course.
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
One of my fave discoveries when co-curating that exhibit at the Billy Ireland were some truly unhinged early Fletcher Hanks drawings that turned out to be his homework from the W.L. Evans School of Cartooning and Caricature correspondence course.
@keezyyoung.bsky.social I finally got a chance to invest time into Hello Sunshine and WOW! I was underestimating the massive scope of what you created here. Congratulations — I think it’s going to be touching readers for a long time to come.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
@keezyyoung.bsky.social I finally got a chance to invest time into Hello Sunshine and WOW! I was underestimating the massive scope of what you created here. Congratulations — I think it’s going to be touching readers for a long time to come.
Reposted by Leigh Walton
What starts as a familiar mix of queer, YA and mystery tropes quickly turns into a thoughtful examination of the complex lives of the characters.
Mental health issues, religion, family and queerness smoothly combine with horror and magic in this visually and thematically dense book.
[2/3]
Mental health issues, religion, family and queerness smoothly combine with horror and magic in this visually and thematically dense book.
[2/3]
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What starts as a familiar mix of queer, YA and mystery tropes quickly turns into a thoughtful examination of the complex lives of the characters.
Mental health issues, religion, family and queerness smoothly combine with horror and magic in this visually and thematically dense book.
[2/3]
Mental health issues, religion, family and queerness smoothly combine with horror and magic in this visually and thematically dense book.
[2/3]
Reposted by Leigh Walton
Bam! It’s official: no Angoulême comics festival in 2026. And the future is clouded after that.
What a huge and avoidable mess.
What a huge and avoidable mess.
BREAKING: ANGOULÊME 2026 cancelled, Bondoux defiant
Angoulême 2026 cannot go ahead. In a message from his lawyers, Franck Bondoux places the blame for the festival’s cancellation entirely on public funders, and demands to have his company 9e Art+ remain as festival organiser for the 2027 event
Angoulême 2026 cannot go ahead. In a message from his lawyers, Franck Bondoux places the blame for the festival’s cancellation entirely on public funders, and demands to have his company 9e Art+ remain as festival organiser for the 2027 event
BREAKING: ANGOULÊME 2026 cancelled, Bondoux defiant
Angoulême 2026 cannot go ahead. In a message from his lawyers, Franck Bondoux places the blame for the festival’s cancellation entirely on public funders, and demands to have his company 9e Art+ remain as festival organiser for the 2027 event
www.comicsbeat.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Bam! It’s official: no Angoulême comics festival in 2026. And the future is clouded after that.
What a huge and avoidable mess.
What a huge and avoidable mess.
Reposted by Leigh Walton
if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors.
allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace
allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors.
allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace
allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace
Reposted by Leigh Walton
Something you don't see discussed much about Moby Dick is that it's about a schoolteacher whose job drives him completely insane every few years, to the point that he routinely goes out on what was at the time one of the top three most dangerous things you could do with yourself
November 7, 2023 at 3:19 AM
Something you don't see discussed much about Moby Dick is that it's about a schoolteacher whose job drives him completely insane every few years, to the point that he routinely goes out on what was at the time one of the top three most dangerous things you could do with yourself